Example sentences of "lie [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 If no action lies for the actual object , none the less the doctrine of tracing allows the money or property received by the trustee on sale of the object under trust to be pursued , and for it to be regarded as subject to the trust in place of the original property intended .
2 Ellis Island lies off the tip of Manhattan , almost adjacent to the Statue of Liberty , and was known as the ‘ Gateway to Americas ’ — the land of fortune and freedom .
3 In status , it lies between a professorship and a senior lectureship , but is equivalent to the latter in duties ( and salary scale ) .
4 ‘ You see how easy it is , McAllister , ’ he whispered suddenly , and he kissed the top of her head , ‘ when it is love that lies between a man and a woman , and not hate and fear . ’
5 It would thus appear that the choice lies between a fast , simple , single channel , open-loop system with a high incidence of error and a relatively slow , complex , multi-channel , closed-loop , more costly system that produces a much higher proportion of correct answers .
6 A semiconducting material , in terms of its ability to conduct electricity , is one which lies between a conductor such as copper and an insulator such as rubber .
7 If you follow it along from the historical site it leads you to a perfect waterfall , and then to a point where flat grass lies between the vertical gorge sides .
8 The growth region is a thin band of cells called the cambium , which lies between the bark and the sapwood .
9 The vagina ( in Latin , a sheath or scabbard ) is about four inches long and lies between the urethra and bladder in front and the rectum behind .
10 St George 's Channel lies between the Welsh and Irish coasts so , unless Captain Bunsby is even more confused than he appears , he must be referring to some smaller channel off the eastern coast of Kent in DS 23 , since the Goodwins and the Downs are both in that region .
11 The excitement concerns a bone in the floor of the skull , that lies between the eyes of amphisbaenians , called the orbitosphenoid bone .
12 It lies between the city of Hull and Withernsea and is built on the heavy clays of South Holderness .
13 The exact position does n't matter as long as the N1 cam lies between the point cams .
14 So the rules for moving the point cams are , firstly , only move the point cam when the carriage is on the opposite side and secondly , if you break rule one while the N1 cam is outside the point cams , move one of the point cams so that the N1 cam lies between the point cams and then read the cam positions .
15 The decision lies between the possibility of losing future business by stopping supplies or of running the risk of a bad debt or a slow paying debt by not doing so .
16 The main fuel trunk , which lies between the ‘ V ’ of the blocks/heads and delivers the petrol/air mixture from the supercharger via the intercooler into the inlet manifolds , was now removed .
17 In long floating-point format the binary point lies between the portion of the mantissa in the first word and the portion of the mantissa in the second word .
18 The frons is the unpaired upper facial part of the head which often lies between the lateral arms of the ecdysial cleavage line when this is present .
19 St Albans is a good example of this type , if we think away the large block of building that lies between the present market place and the street called Chequer Street that lies behind .
20 An understanding of what lies between the parties may be made easier if we refer to some of the statutory provisions in the Rules of the Supreme Court regarding the taxation of costs .
21 A ‘ Glagolitic ’ Seminary existed until 1820 in Priko , in the district of Poljica , which lies between the lower Cetina valley and the coast between Split and Omiš .
22 This section of land lies between the canal and the River Tame and leads along to the A5127 northeast-bound where there might be room for a vehicle to pull off the road into the gateway to load up beneath the M6 .
23 A ball is deemed to be in a lateral water hazard if it lies between the parallel red stakes marking the boundary of the lateral water hazard , whether or not the ball lies in the water or on the surrounding bank .
24 The truth probably lies between the two extremes .
25 Where they do not coincide the coastal orientation usually lies between the two directions , being nearer to the one which is dominant .
26 Several details have been omitted and I shall say nothing about the way Venus and the Sun move around their orbits , except that the point O on Venus 's orbit always lies between the Earth ( E ) and the Sun ( S ) , that V moves around O , and O and S move around the Earth .
27 This lies between the mean densities of Venus and the Earth , but because of Mercury 's low gravity the uncompressed density is not much less that 5430 kg/m 3 , whereas the uncompressed densities of Venus and the Earth are considerably less than the planetary values .
28 The first may be difficult to distinguish from the ventral arm spines but may be recognised because it usually lies between the preceding arm spine row and the row of the arm segment with the pore .
29 ‘ Both Dame Catherine and the porter mentioned these two corpses being found in the wood which lies between the priory and the palace .
30 Like all good stories , the real message lies between the lines .
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